Chapter 8: Bloody Battle (III)

"The attack begins! The flamethrow squad starts attacking!"

At 6 pm, Colonel Zhao Hai, the commander of the 3rd Mechanization Regiment of the 45th Army Division, issued an attack order on the intercom.

The 3rd Mechanized Regiment launched a defense line on National Highway 310 next to Kaiyun Town, Ganshui County. 60 armored vehicles opened a battle line of about 3 kilometers, carrying 60 flamethrowers on it. The other two regiments of the 45th Division spread on the left and right wings of the 3rd Regiment. Because the area that needs defense is too wide, the front-line troops can only carry out maneuver defense according to the helicopter report.

Colonel Zhao Hai directly commanded the operations on the front line, and the regiment command post was a heavy armored vehicle.

Before the flamethrow squad launched an attack, the bomber squadron had thrown a large number of napalm bombs on the mountains in front of the defense line. The dragon-like flame tongue had turned the mountains in front of it into seas of fire.

According to the helicopter report, one wing of the main force of the rat group is quickly approaching Kering Town. The tide-like rat group is covered with the sky, and several helicopters have been hovering over the rat group. Because of the mountain cover, the helicopters cannot determine the width of the rat group. This is an astonishing large group.

Another group of rats rushed from the north of Qinba Mountains to Jindao Gorge less than 20 kilometers from Kaiyun Town. If these two groups of rats were allowed to merge, the National Highway 310 defense line in Ganshui County would be in danger of collapse. Therefore, the front-line mobilized the 1st mechanized regiment of the 45th Division to fight this group of rats.

However, it is difficult to grasp the movements of the rat group. The western mountainous areas are full of rats. Laymen cannot judge their movements at all. They can only see them rushing around and looting villages, sweeping all the creatures of people and livestock. Because mice are inferior creatures, no one can predict where the rat group will appear next moment. Judging the movements of the rat group can only rely on the reconnaissance report of helicopters. It is ironic to say that human wisdom seems useless in fighting the lowest creatures like mice.

The flame ejection made the National Highway 310 line clearly appear. This is a scene of hell. The flame tongue with a maximum jet distance of more than 40 meters swayed violently left and right, burning and killing rat groups. Such situations continue on National Highway 310.

The road was filled with rats. All the armored vehicles were buried in the pile of rats. The so-called defense line was flooded by rats 1 hour ago. Until the attack began, it was impossible to calculate how many rats rushed through the defense line.

The flamethrower opened the door of the armored vehicle, first burned out the group of rats at the door, and drove out the foothold before getting off the vehicle.

The armored vehicle was filled with burnt mice making a disgusting stench.

Zhao Hai saw from the car window that the soldiers standing on the road desperately whipped the fire whip at the surrounding mice. Next to the personnel who were operating the flamethrower, there were usually two soldiers. Their task was to constantly drive away the mice that rushed to their feet with their feet. If there was a slight negligence, these mice running around the ground would knock down the personnel who were operating the flamethrower.

At the beginning of the battle, flares hit the air more frequently. Coupled with the fires from the mountains in the distance, the near National Highway 310 was as bright as day. All the soldiers fought bloody battles under the white light.

The fire-eye ejector will be out of fuel in a few minutes. It takes 4 minutes to replenish the combustion agent. At this time, another soldier who operates the flamethrower must make up to continue the ejection. If there is a little gap, it will be life-threatening.

The range of flames erupted quickly became like a mountain. However, the rats climbed up the mountains and rushed over, endlessly, which was a terrible momentum. The mountain of corpses that were piled up was burning, but the rats seemed to be driven to climb these volcanoes by something, and they rushed down like flowing thick asphalt. When they came to the nearby group of rats, their small rat eyes were burned blood red by the flames, and tens of thousands of rat eyes shone like black pearls on the flames. This eye made all soldiers feel cold on their backs. It was not the look of looking at their opponents, it was the madness and covetness of seeing food. The flamethrower swept across, and after swept over, the mountain-like corpses burned again, but the flames burned higher...

"not good!"

Zhao Hai suddenly screamed. A flame that rushed towards the group of rats suddenly rushed to the sky without warning. The burner mixed with volatile oil rushed to the sky. The fireball bloomed like a festival firework, just covering the heavy armored vehicle that was the command post.

"Go forward!" Zhao Hai ordered loudly.

The heavy armored vehicle suddenly started, and in an instant, the armored vehicle became a burning vehicle. However, the flame quickly disappeared.

"Go back! Save people! Back!"

When the order was issued, Zhao Hai had already heard the soldiers' dull screams. Three soldiers from a flamethrow group were knocked down by a group of rats. The fallen soldiers were desperately crawling towards the armored vehicles. Even though the surroundings were as bright as daylight, it was no longer possible to identify whether it was a soldier or a rat lump. The armored vehicles roared and retreated, and layers of rats were covered in blood by the armored vehicles. A soldier tried to stand up with difficulty, and soon he fell. The direction of his fall happened to be a dike, which was invisible. The other soldier also followed him. Behind the dike, there seemed to be a bottomless ancient well. The two soldiers rolled down and disappeared without a sound. A flamethrow group had only one soldier covered in blood and had countless rats hanging on it. At least he was dragged into the armored vehicle.

Outside the car window, the hot and bright fire whips that were still continuous just now have begun to decrease one after another.

"Front finger, front finger!" Zhao Hai grabbed the radio telephone and roared: "The flamethrow troops cannot suppress the attack of the rat group at all. Please send bombers to throw napalm bombs in front of National Highway 310! One hundred thousand is urgent! The flamethrow troops' burning agent is about to be used up. If this continues, the defense line will collapse at most 20 minutes!"

"Get it! Let's contact the Air Force immediately!"

Zhao Hai just took a breath when a majestic voice came from the radio telephone:

"I am Bao Shandong! Zhao Hai, 1 hour ago, two bomber squadrons in your place had already dropped napalm bombs. According to the helicopter report, the mountains in front of Kering Town have formed a large sea of ​​fire. The main force of the rat group cannot pass through such an area. Even if it rushes to the highway, it will only be a small group. Why do you still call for bomber reinforcements?"

"Teacher Commander!" Zhao Hai swallowed hard: "It is true that the mountains in front have formed a sea of ​​fire. However, there are no small groups around National Highway 310 at all. There are groups of rats everywhere in sight. All the armored vehicles are buried in the pile of rats, and the flamethrow troops are almost unable to withstand it!"

Major General Bao Shandong in the phone was silent. After attacking with napalm bombs, there would be an astonishing group of rats that would rush onto the highway. Although napalm bombs are powerful, they have to be subject to many restrictions when throwing. If the wings of the rats are wide open, it is possible to find a breakthrough from the gaps in the napalm bomb attack. However, the defense line of the 3rd regiment has been expanded for less than an hour, and the rats have found a gap that can be broken through by the rats under the attack of three-dimensional firepower in the air. This is an unknown sign.
Chapter completed!